Understanding Industrial Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial SociologyRoutledge, 2013 M10 31 - 288 pages Understanding Industrial Organizations critically reviews the approaches developed by industrial sociologists to analyze industrial organizations. It outlines four general perspectives on organizations - systems thinking, contingency approach, the action approach and labour process for a more adequate sociology of organizations. The book provides a clear, relevant and important contribution to the sociology of organizations. |
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... emphasis on employers ' problems such as selection and on individual services such as vocational guidance . As Rose has shown in his lively account of ' human factor industrial psychology ' , the investigators of questions about ...
... emphasis on employers ' problems such as selection and on individual services such as vocational guidance . As Rose has shown in his lively account of ' human factor industrial psychology ' , the investigators of questions about ...
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... emphasis on function- alist analysis which characterised sociology in general in the 1940s and 1950s . Indeed among the rather sparse references to other social theorists in the work of Mayo and Roethlisberger and Dickson it is ...
... emphasis on function- alist analysis which characterised sociology in general in the 1940s and 1950s . Indeed among the rather sparse references to other social theorists in the work of Mayo and Roethlisberger and Dickson it is ...
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Contents
Systems thinking | 39 |
Context contingency and choice | 97 |
Orientation and action | 135 |
Labour power and the labour process | 165 |
Conclusion | 228 |
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Understanding Industrial Organisations: Theoretical Perspectives in ... Richard K. Brown Limited preview - 1992 |
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